Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has offered some amusing insight into his younger years - before F1 - revealing he was dumped by his girlfriend after blowing his first £60,000 paycheck.
HWA Racelab will replace Arden in the Formula 2 championship from 2020. The Mercedes-affiliated team, who already compete in Formula E, Formula 3 and DTM, will enter F2 from next season taking over the BWT Arden team entry slot.
Artem Markelov will make a two-round Formula 2 comeback with BWT Arden as replacement for Anthoine Hubert following his tragic death at the Belgian round.
Tatiana Calderon will make the move up to the FIA Formula 2 championship this season after securing a deal with BWT Arden, lining up alongside GP3 Series champion Anthoine Hubert.
European Formula 3 podium finisher Joey Mawson will graduate to GP3 for the 2018 season with Arden International. Mawson moves up to the Formula 1-supporting category after finishing 13th in the 2017 European F3 standings during his first full campaign in international-level F3.
Mercedes DTM development driver Maximilian Gunther will step up to the FIA Formula 2 championship with Arden International for his rookie season in 2018.
Arden's Johnny Cecotto Jr. will have to sit out the Saturday spring race in Monaco after being handed a one-race ban for his part in Friday's major pile-up.
Arden team mates Johnny Cecotto Jr. and Mitch Evans put in impressive displays in a split qualifying to claim the front row for Friday morning's feature race.
Just two weeks after the end of the 2011 GP2 Series, the teams are already gearing up to more on-track activity as they prepare to head to Jerez for two days of testing.
1. Luca Filippi Super Nova 1hr 01mins 55.822secs 3. Javier Villa Super Nova +8.351s 3. Dani Clos Racing Engineering +9.026s 4. Alvaro Parente Ocean +9.436s